It is quite pretty from below. So, look up as you climb the central staircase of the public library of Chicago. When you get to the top, pause. Consider. Reflect. Witness recompense for human folly, measured in dog tags, a pair for every U.S. soldier who died in Vietnam.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. –Dwight D. Eisenhower